Re: nscd

[Ricardo Wurmus]

adriano <randomlooser@riseup.net> writes:

> Il giorno lun, 31/01/2022 alle 23.30 +0100, Ricardo Wurmus ha scritto:
>> 
>> adriano <randomlooser@riseup.net> writes:
>> 
>> > The "Application Setup" in the manual
>> > ( https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html )
>> > suggests to run the nscd service
>> > 
>> > "we strongly recommend that the system run the GNU C library’s name
>> > service cache daemon, nscd, which should be listening on the
>> > /var/run/nscd/socket socket."
>> > 
>> >  found such service already running on my Ubuntu installation and
>> > the
>> > mentioned socket is there
>> > 
>> > But now I'm wondering: does the manual refer to the host distro
>> > when it
>> > says "the system" ?
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>> The reason is that nscd communicates with processes over a network
>> protocol, which allows binaries built with Guix to talk to user
>> account
>> services on a foreign distro.  Alternative account services require
>> loading of binary plugins, which would not be possible when these
>> plugins are linked with incompatible libraries.
>> 
>
> Thank you, Ricardo
>
> so because the nscd service being used is provided by the Ubuntu host,
> the issue I'm running into (discussed in another thread) is not due to
> the wrong nscd service being used
>
> am I right ?

Correct.  It should not be related to nscd.

nscd from Ubuntu should work just fine because the protocol is the same
no matter if client and server are linked with different libraries.

-- 
Ricardo